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At ‘Music for Wellbeing’ yesterday Helen gave out kazoos. The accompaniment of thirty geriatric kazoo players made some songs sound very different!! …Including ‘Ring of Fire’: I fell into a burning ring of fireI went down, down, downAnd the flames went higherAnd it burns, burns, burnsThe ring of fire… On the news, Dominic Rabb resignedContinue reading “Ring of Fire”

Recently we visited ‘The Spice Den’. I chose the ‘mixed platter’ starter… lamb tikka, chicken tikka, seekh kebab, onion bhaji, meat and vegetable simosa… I enjoyed tasting the variety of different dishes… There’s a similar principle when the family come round for dinner… Invariably Rachel produces more than one dessert – apple pie, chocolate cheesecake,Continue reading “Tasting… Experiment, Enjoyment, Expectation…”

Victoria Arlen, telling of her pain, paralysis and healing, at one point says: ‘I define a scar as a reminder – sometimes visible, sometimes not  – of a struggle or a moment when I was in pain. My journey left several wounds and created many scars, but most of my visible scars have healed. TheContinue reading “The Scars Tell The Story”

When I was young my parents devised a system for my brothers and me. If we behaved well we gained points; if we misbehaved we lost points. Our pocket money – paid every Sunday morning – was dependent on how many points we had at the end of each week. Life’s filled with transactional relationships…Continue reading “From Transactional to Transformational”

I’ve heard many stories about the Lowestoft fishing industry… Small boats fishing off the beach… growth… bigger boats… drifters catching herring… trawlers catching cod, plaice, haddock… over-fishing… decline… Musing… Sometimes we’re drifters – going with the flow, guided by the life’s winds and currents, taking opportunities when they come… Sometimes we’re trawlers – more direct,Continue reading “Drifters and Trawlers”

Many are returning to school, college and university today. For some there’ll be revision before examinations… …Revision… re-vision… looking at something again… reviewing, re-examining, correcting… …I was half-listening to the news… about a tax on sheep. I was thinking… ‘The farmers won’t be pleased’… ‘How will it be administered?’ They were talking about keeping dogsContinue reading “Revision… Re-vision… Pip, Victoria, Matthew”

When you try your best, but you don’t succeedWhen you get what you want, but not what you needWhen you feel so tired, but you can’t sleepStuck in reverse I heard ‘Fix You’ on the radio yesterday. It spoke to me of Good Friday… Frends and followers have been with Jesus for three years. They’veContinue reading “Fix You”

Yesterday we had a lovely day out in Buxton, enjoying the ‘The Buxton Crescent experience tour’. One of the first purpose-built hotels in the country, it was built by the fifth Duke of Devonshire in the 1780s, establishing Buxton as a fashionable Georgian spa town… We visited a wonderful bookshop and browsed… I finished readingContinue reading “If I Only Had Time”

Yesterday we visited Hardwick Hall, a 16th century Elizabethan country house in Derbyshire. Information boards explained some of the renovations taking place… They could establish the age of 16th century timber used in the construction of the original building using ‘dendrochronology’. That’s a new word to me… …Dendrochronology is the scientific method of dating treeContinue reading “Dendrochronology”

‘DOT Collective’ theatre company are visiting The Seagull Theatre. They say: ‘DOT collective specialise in making work which is accessible to audiences from a wide spectrum. They have toured care homes and residential homes with their shows… you can expect to see people hanging from scaffold towers and performing on hoops and ribbons.’ They’ve beenContinue reading “Rethinking Creativity”